it's 2026 and I'm still blogging

Juicelog 26/03/2026: It's 2026 and I'm 50yo. How da heck did that happen???!!!

Life is really good, Celebrated my 50th last September (had a massive birthday party at the hackney chinese community centre where I had lots of food, drink, a mariache band, did a video of my life and a drag queen). Went to burning man the year before (that was such a wow moment in my life). Cried a few times whilst I was there as I have wanted to go there for such a long time. The arthritis in my right foot (from the bike truck road accident where I broke my tibbie in my right leg) has got a little bit worse but that doesn't stop me from going to Zumba and my afrobeats dance class. Eyesight has also got a lot worse with old age (I'm getting to that point where I think I need vari-focals). Am contemplating getting laser eye surgery soon as well asa trip to turkey for my hair transplant. My hair is seriously thinning. The shock realisation came when I saw the top of my scalp during a teams work meeting and then our team admin switched the camera from the laptop to the camera web cam on top the big 60 inch TV. This was definitely the peak of my superficiality and hit hard on my ever so fragile and weak gay-man-living-in-London ego.

So….I would say my social life is super active now than ever. Largely because we get lots of hugely discounted tickets in the NHS. I guess the other primary driver is that I still immensely enjoy going out to meet new people and have been dipping into different things that London has to offer. Even though I’m hugely biased I don’t think many other cities can rival the variety of art, sub queer hobby/interests groups in our ever so amazing city. My advice is download “meetup” and Eventbrite apps and have a look on these apps at the things that interest you. I’m also very lucky that I have an interesting and eclectic mix of peeps in my social groups.

Still think about Huw a lot since he passed away back in 2020. Am going to try my best to keep up my blog so I can share what’s going on in my world but also to vent and have a release if those situations arise.

It's been way too long

Juicelog Sun 230613: Just realised it's been 5 years since I last posted.  The way people communicate and interact has changed somewhat.  With me, I have tried to enjoy the moment instead of trying to record and capture the moment with camcorders and phone.  I'm more into videos than photos, hence my youtube page:

http:www.youtube.com/user/protechnic

GMF Bidet Bash

Juicelog Sun 310808: Picking up R2 from the airport, we took him down to GMF to see if we could trade him in for some bonus friend points. Ditching us quite early on in the evening, he went to check out a local tripod stand. With loadsa punters squeezed in tonight, they opened up the upstairs roof terrace. Being too windy tonight, a lot of the boys were huddled underneath blankets sitting on the sofas.

That furniture place

Juicelog Sat 300808: Before I begin, I would like to clarify my position and highly stress that I DID NOT purchase any furniture tonight. We merely went down to Ikea tonight for meatballs, wiener schnitzel and soft ice cream.

The Split

Juicelog Fri 220808: DB and DBB decided to call it quits last Sunday. To make matters worse, me and Paul B. took DB out to West 5 tonight. Jazzing up our boys night out we decided that as part of the recovery process, we created DB's first gaydar profile.

Soho Pride '08

Juicelog Sun 170808: With the imminent arrival of the Beijing Olympics, I decided to get everyone into the party sprit with through the power of the j-hat. Starting off at Ruben’s dim sum bidet lunch, I drifted onto Robbie’s farewell Oxo Tower brunch before a final boomerang back into Soho Square.

Such a simple outfit caused a whole mixture of feelings from everyone’s intrigue with wanting to wear it to those who were shocked that I would have the audacity to spin such a wonderful item from the top of my head. Amazingly, both the hat and myself both survived this lengthy Sunday.

Spätzle

Juicelog Mon 110808: Whilst having dinner with Satsuma tonight in Kreuzberg, I had a delicious ham and gruyere Spätzle dish (which is suppose to be quite a popular southern German dish). Extremely tasty comfort food that I will attempt to have a go at some time this winter.

Flo's Chillout

Juicelog Fri 080808: Ended up at Flo’s flat for a chillout. Was slightly surprised with how some of these youngsters were mixing booze with their gina.

Chantal’s House of Shame

Juicelog Thurs 070808: Touching down in Berlin tonight, we dropped off our bags and went to Chantal’s House of Shame (in Prenzlauer Berg) with Laurent D. Chantal is a drag queen who runs this night at Bassy’s Cowboy club. This is a neat little club with dimly lit red lights. It has retained features of its previous existence as a bank. Towards the back of the venue where they have a football table, you can see the bars and old deposit boxes. Like most of the old buildings in Berlin, this one also has not got any aircon and gets extremely hot.
Quite popular with the locals, the Berlin boys are attracted to this place because it is quite sociable and has got some tacky drag shows halfway through the evening.

Brighton Pride 2008

Juicelog Sat 020808: Pushing forward our meeting time, I tricked everyone to get to Victoria station at the right time. Occupying a fifth of the train carriage, we champagne our way through the early showers. Had a brief pit stop at Matt’s place to change into our outfits before heading over to the park.

Tiring myself out, I finally made it back onto one of the late evening trains back to London. One of the most tiring dates in the partying calendar.